books

Books by Fred Newman

PSYCHOLOGY PRESS CLASSIC EDITION

Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary Scientist

By Fred Newman and Lois Holzman

“Routledge’s Critical Psychology Series has produced another landmark… a provocative and accessible introduction to the early Soviet psychologist’s life and work, as well as to current Vygotskian research.” – Australian Journal of Psychology

The current debate in psychology and politics over the possibility for human development has sparked a renewed interest in the work of the brilliant Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsky. Newman and Holzman are among the few contemporary followers of Vygotsky to explore the potential of his Marxist methodology to transform psychology and education. The 2013 Psychology Press Classic Edition contains a new introduction by Lois Holzman outlining the changes that have occurred since its first appearance in 1993. (Routledge, 2013) $49.95 BUY NOW

Talk/Talk: Fred Newman and Jackie Salit Making (Non) Sense of an Irrational Worldedited by John Opdycke

For
years, Fred Newman and Jacqueline Salit--two leading activists and
intellectuals within the independent political movement -- watched the
political talk shows and discussed them over coffee. In early 2005, they began
transcribing these conversations and distributing them to their friends and
followers. Over the years, their "talk about the talk" developed into
a popular weekly missive distributed via e-mail to tens of thousands of readers
worldwide. Making (Non) Sense of an Irrational World is a compilation of
some of their most popular and thought provoking discussions from the last five
years $16.00 BUY NOW

The End of Knowing: A New
Developmental Way of Learning By Fred Newman and Lois Holzman

“Newman and Holzman take
the postmodern discussion beyond its usual focus on words, discourses and
narratives to more closely examine what it means to communicate in
transformative ways.” – Tom Strong, University of Calgary

Throughout the modern era,
a period of explosive growth and technological achievement, knowledge was king
and understood to be the engine of human progress. But what if knowing has
become an impediment to further human development? The End of Knowing
addresses the practical question of how to reconstruct our world in the wake of
modernism’s colossal failure to solve social problems. Newman and Holzman
propose “the end of knowing,” in favor of “performed activity” and present the
positive implications of this approach for social and educational policy.
(Routledge, 1997) $28.00 BUY NOW

In a culture
of "getting," the little book that keeps on giving is back. The 2010
edition of Fred Newman's LET'S DEVELOP has a forward by Patch Adams (the
peripatetic, clowning MD) and new introduction by Lois Holzman. Based
on 25 years of clinical practice and his discovery that people can reinitiate
development at any stage in life, Newman urges his readers to eschew insights,
explanations or getting to the "bottom" of deep-rooted emotional
problems and seek their cure in development. (Castillo International, 1994)
$18.95 BUY NOW

Unscientific Psychology: A
Cultural-Performatory Approach to Understanding Human Life By Fred Newman and
Lois Holzman

Western Philosophy is
dead. Yet its assumptions and presuppositions disguised as science live
on in modernist psychology. Arguing that psychology is a pseudoscientific hoax,
the authors deconstruct three of psychology’s most powerful myths: the myth of
the individual, of mental illness, and of development. More than a critique of
mainstream psychology, Newman and Holzman present a methodology for
reconstructing psychology as a developmental and community-building activity.
(Praeger, 1996, $65.95 hardcover; iUniverse, 2006, $19.95 paperback) BUY NOW

Performance of a Lifetime:
A Practical-Philosophical Guide to the Joyous Lifeby Fred Newman and Phyllis
Goldberg

In the sequel to Let's
Develop!, Newman shows the way to living joyously through philosophizing.
He teaches non-philosophers how to engage in the activity of philosophizing —
what he calls asking big questions about little things. Through practical
example, Newman shares with his readers how appreciating the banal and the
magic of everyday life can be a profoundly joyous experience. (Castillo
International, 1996) $11.95 BUY NOW

Still on the Corner and other Postmodern Political Plays by Fred Newman, edited by Dan Friedman

The publication of this collection of plays by Fred Newman makes available for the first time a unique and ground-breaking body of dramatic work written between 1986 and 1997 and produced by the Castillo Theatre in New York City. (Out of Print)

The Myth of PsychologyThis book documents an anti-psychology movement and a clinical methodology which treat patients as revolutionary, i.e. able to change their emotionality and their world. In this fascinating and unorthodox book, Dr. Fred Newman, the founder of social therapy, explodes the myths on which the whole of Eurocentric psychology is based. (Out of Print)